Willimantic Man Arrested After Passing Out With Food On Stove

KELLY GLISTA, Kglista@courant.com

WILLIMANTIC — A 29-year-old man was charged with risk of injury and reckless endangerment Saturday after he allegedly passed out, leaving food cooking on the stove and his young daughter in the apartment.

Police and firefighters responded to an apartment complex on Valley Street at about 7 p.m. after a fire alarm activated, police said.

They found smoke coming from an apartment window and when they entered, they found Christopher Adams asleep on the couch with his 5-year-old daughter trying to wake him, police said.

Despite the food smoking on the stove and the smoke alarm sounding, it took firefighters several attempts to wake Adams, police said. Police said he appeared to be intoxicated.

Adams was arrested and held on $20,000 bail, police said. The girl was not injured, police said.